Bilingual signboards in Kurdish and Turkish have been removed by the trustee of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality in the Çaldıran (Ebex) district of Turkey. The Democratic Regions Party (DBP) had been elected in 2014 but the trustee who has since been appointed has imposed the changes in Van.Read More
Doğan Çetin, who was carrying out his compulsory military service in Edirne, was subjected to racial discrimination, assault and verbal abuse by two soldiers when he spoke in Kurdish and also said: “I wish we had received an education in Kurdish”. After his assault, he filed a criminal complaint. He said: “I fear for my […]Read More
Forest fires erupted in Mount Gabar, beside the town of Dergul in Şırnak (Şirnex) province in Turkey.Read More
The funeral of Kurdish construction worker Özkan Tokay, who has lost his life due to a gun assault in Afyon, took place yesterday in the Erciş district of the city of Van (Wan) in Turkey.Read More
A car bomb exploded in the centre of Efrin, close to a bus station. An explosives-laden small truck detonated in Kawa Square.Read More
Pakistan Bilen, the Peoples Assembly co-chair, said there were concerns, on the one hand, over the Covid-19 outbreak and on the other, the attacks in Makhmur which has been under an embargo for fourteen months. Makhmur is located in Iraq.Read More
by Ateş Alpar Fırat Sözeri is a translator, researcher, and writer who works on ‘Russian-Kurdish relations’ and the history of the Caucasian Kurds. Fırat has also translated many books, poems, and articles from Russian to Kurdish and Turkish, including the ‘1918 Soviet Constitution’ and Maksim Gorki’s novel, ‘The Mother’.Read More
Ecology organisations have issued a public statement protesting against the forest fires in Mount Cudi.Read More
Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar have visited former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and former HDP deputy Abdullah Zeydan, both of whom have been imprisoned in Edirne F-type High Security Closed Prison.Read More
Construction workers from Van (Wan) have been assaulted with a gun in the Dinar district of Afyon in Turkey.Read More
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